Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 6:10 PM Edited Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 6:11 PM
I kept a list of every movie I saw this year (107, in case you wondered) just so I could accurately make this post. This year, I saw all the movies that were on last year's "want to see" list. 1 of them wound up in my top 5, and 2 of them in my bottom 5.
Top 5 Movies I Saw This Year: 1. The Matrix 2. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 3. Session 9 4. Titus 5. Infection
Bottom 5 Movies: 1. Unzipped 2. Very Bad Things 3. Tristram Shandy 4. The Last Kiss 5. Irma Vep
Top 5 Movies I Wanted To See But Haven't Yet: 1. European Promises 2. I Am Legend 3. Audition 4. Bosque de sombras 5. Across the Universe
Top 5 CDs: 1. Electric Six - I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master 2. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away 3. The Bravery - The Sun and the Moon 4. The Fratellis - Costello Music 5. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Top 6 Songs (This was supposed to be 10, but I narrowed it down to 6 without thinking. Whoops.): 1. Electric Six - White Train 2. Kill Hannah - Crazy Angel 3. Mindless Self Indulgence - Bitches 4. The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger 5. Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks 6. Gold Chains - Code Red
Top 5 TV Shows: 1. Survivor 2. Big Brother 3. America's Next Top Model 4. The Amazing Race 5. Project Runway
Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 6:32 PM Edited Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at 6:36 PM
i don't have anything that well organized or thought out, but i have listened to over 17,000 mp3's from my computer since may of 2006. so, this is as close as i can come to listing this years favorites.
oh, and i didn't watch any movies i haven't already seen in 2007.
Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 12:41 AM Edited Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 12:41 AM
What the hell.
Top CDs of 2007 (that may or may not have actually been released in 2007)
6. Steve Earle--Washington Square Serenade 5. Over the Rhine--The Trumpet Child 4. The White Stripes--Icky Thump 3. Spoon--Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 2. The Decemberists--The Crane Wife 1. The Silver Seas--High Society
Top song (in fact, maybe the best song ever written in the entire history of the world)
Flight of the Conchords--Business Time
Top TV shows (in no particular order)
Law & Order (of course) Dexter The Closer Psych Ghost Hunters
Top Movies
hmmm... I'm just gonna go with Transformers. I know I saw a bazillion movies over the summer but nothing really stands out in my mind except this one. Oh, and one other, which brings me to...
Worst Movie
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Maybe it woulda helped if I'd seen the first two and had half a clue what was going on, I dunno.
Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 2:46 AM Edited Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 2:52 AM
This is not off of the top of my head-
Top 5 2007 Movies:
3:10 to Yuma Hot Fuzz Reign Over Me The Lookout Breach
Top 7 CDs (what catloaf said):
Cylob - Cylobian Sunset Fabric 36: Ricardo Villalobos Tetsu Inoue - Inland Cornelius - Sensuous Hot Chip - DJ Kicks Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Mysterious Skin ST The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
Black Snake Moan Superbad The Simpsons Movie Harry Potter, etc. Gone Baby Gone Ocean's 13 Planet Terror
Movies I Will Definitely Probably Catch This Year
Sweeney Todd Juno Charlie Wilson's War Enchanted American Gangster We Own the Night Shoot 'Em Up Hairspray Ratatouille Waitress No Country for Old Men There Will Be Blood
What the hell happened to 3:10 to Yuma? It was on my request list at the library, and suddenly disappeared. It should have been amongst the movies I want to see.
Music 2007 Muscles - Guns Babes Lemonade Lil' Wayne - Da Drought 3 Kate Nash - Made of Bricks Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhhs Blonde Redhead - 23 Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War M.I.A. - Kala Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll Bjork - Volta Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
TV 2007 House Reaper The Office Psych Friday Night Lights Survivor Pushing Daisies Top Gear Big Brother
10. Lack of Afro- Press On 9. Spoon- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 8. Stuffy/The Fuses- Angels Are Ace 7. MIA- Kala 6. The Heavy- Great Vengeance & Furious Fire 5. Arcade Fire- Neon Bible 4. Bjork- Volta 3. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- Living with the Living 2. The New Pornographers- Challengers 1. The Bees- Octopus
Top 13 Songs:
13. 12 Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo- Jens Lekman 12. Amylase- Cajun Dance Party 11. 100 Days, 100 Nights- Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings 10. 2080- Yeasayer 9. You! Me! Dancing!- Los Campesinos! 8. Paper Planes- MIA 7. Foxy Boxer- Bearsuit 6. Left Foot Step Down- The Bees 5. The Underdog- Spoon 4. 1234- Feist 3. A Bottle of Buckie- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists 2. Mutiny, I Promise You- The New Pornographers 1. Earth Intruders- Bjork
Top 10 TV Shows:
10. Mock the Week/Never Mind the Buzzcocks (tie) 9. Living with Ed 8. 30 Rock 7. The Daily Show 6. The Colbert Report 5. Have I Got News For You 4. House 3. The Office 2. Peep Show 1. QI
TV SHOWS Lost The Office House The Colbert Report 30 Rock Around the Horn/Pardon the Interruption
BEST MOVIES (But I didn’t see many) U2 3D Children of Men Zodiac Inside Man The Bourne Ultimatum Juno Charlie Wilson’s War (minus Julia Roberts) The Departed
TOP MOVIES I STILL WANT TO SEE Michael Clayton There Will Be Blood No End In Sight Gone Baby Gone Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead The Savages
BIGGEST LETDOWN MOVIES Brick – I wanted to like this more but I kept getting a Bugsy Malone vibe that ruined it for me. Especially every time Lukas Haas’ character appears.
Smokin’ Aces – Aside from the 5 minutes Jason Bateman is on screen (which nearly saves the entire movie), it tries too hard.
Talladega Nights/Knocked Up – Fifteen minutes of funny in a dragged out to a two-hour movie. Seriously I thought they would never end and, for Talladega, I don’t remember if I even made it all the way through.
Disturbia – Started out really good, ended up ludicrously over the top. It felt like Donald Kaufman took control of the script for the third act.
Spider-Man 3 – Worst movie I saw this year.
CD’s Muse – Black Holes and Revelations Lifehouse – Who We Are Arcade Fire – Neon Bible Jimmy Eat World – Chase This Light Radiohead – In Rainbows Seal – System
SONGS Starlight – Muse Business Time – Flight of the Conchords Umbrella – Rhianna Easily – Borne Ladies and Gentlemen – Saliva Read My Mind – The Killers
Smokin’ Aces – Aside from the 5 minutes Jason Bateman is on screen (which nearly saves the entire movie), it tries too hard.
Man you're so right, this movie blew ASS, plus I had such high hopes for it, I thought it would be like Shoot em up or Ocean's 11 or the Departed. No it was a dumb ass movie, and they killed the best actor in the first 20 minutes. [Ben Affleck]
Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 11:54 PM Edited Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 11:58 PM
Top 5 Movies I Saw This Year:
1. Superbad 2. Simpsons 3. Chuck and Larry 4. 300 5. Fracture
Most Disappointing Movies:
1. Smokin Aces 2. Grindhouse 3. I Am Legend 4. The Number 23 5. Saw III
Bottom 5 Movies:
1. Epic Movie 2. Good Luck Chuck 3. Balls of Fury 4. Primeval 5. The Bucket List
Top 5 CDs: 1. Fear Before the March of Flames - The Always Open Mouth 2. Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift 3. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations 4. Incubus - Light Grenades 5. As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
Top 6 Songs (This was supposed to be 10, but I narrowed it down to 6 without thinking. Whoops.): 1. Glassjaw - Ape Dos Mil 2. Kanye - Stronger 3. Rihanna - Umbrella 4. Chevelle - I Get It 5. This Providence - But What Will They Say? 6. Timbaland - The Way I Are 7. Spoon - The Underdog 8. Foo Fighters - The Pretender 9. New Found Glory - Kiss Me 10. Kaiser Cheifs - Ruby
Top 5 TV Shows: 1. Psych 2. Lost 3. Survivor 4. Intervention 5. Rob and Big
